Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble. The Army has advanced with remarkably little internal friction. It has not, however, been easy to conduct the American campaign from the London headquarters. In 1896, Bramwell Booth's brother, Ballington, and his sister-in-law, Maud Ballington Booth, held sway on this Continent. They seceded, forming the Volunteers of America. Most of the Army officers, however, remained loyal to the London Commander-in-Chief, who promptly appointed his sister Evangeline to the difficult American command. Now Evangeline is a very great woman. She began her career by peddling copies of the War Cry and has done...
...Jews, driven from Europe, had taken England for their own. Baruch Frankl, "Jew of Jews," ordered his tenants to wear a fez with a tassel as Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...
...better known advertisers will of course maintain lobbies to influence the vote of the jury. Trade and Mark will be present, accompanied by their sister, Elsie, the stenographer's friend. The three wise men of the East will parade in all their glory in an endeavor to turn the vote of Klan members of the jury to Kollege Konstructed Klothes...
...Harvard La Follette-Wheeler Club will organize a similar club at Radcliffe on tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Agassiz House. Miss Zara Dupont, sister of Senator Coleman Dupont of Delaware will address the meeting, and urge Radcliffe to take its place with other woman's colleges in the La Follette Campaign...
Small town prejudice branded Lazybones as a failure because he always went fishing instead of tending to work. In the first act, he adopts an illegitimate child born to the sister of his fiancee. The fiancee believes the child to be his and deserts. Twenty years later, the baby's mother, married in the interim to a mean country banker, dies of a broken heart; and Lazybones marries the child...